The Taliban Are Losing Control of Afghanistan
Simon Whistler · August 15, 2026 · 16 min video · Global
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Something is brewing in the high hills of Afghanistan and it spells trouble for the ruling Taliban government. On the 1st of August, the organization was delivered a message by a little known resistance organization, the Afghan United Front, otherwise known as the AUF.
The message wasn't written in ink, it was written in blood, with a wave of attacks unleashed across Afghanistan, each one with the Taliban squarely in the AUF's crosses.
The attacks were well planned, well coordinated and brutally effective, and since the 1st of August, they've only continued. We're only weeks away from the five-year anniversary of America's desperate Afghanistan withdrawal and the fall of the capital city of Kabul.
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